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Through the concert tour and the concentration required to play the same concert program seven times in two weeks, all the musicians were able to take their musicality to the next level. I was recently listening to a recording of our last season concert before the tour, and the differences between that performance and the last few performances on tour were amazing. Each concert was also unique, each in a different building with different acoustics (or in the case of the pilberk concert, exposed to the great outdoors and with almost no acoustics whatsoever). We played our four concerts in Germany back to back, which meant not getting back to the hotel until after midnight for several nights in a row. The concerts in the Czech Republic were interesting too; I remember those quite vividly. Read on; I provide a brief synopsis of my experiences of each concert.
For those of you who want to know, here's a list of the pieces we played. Every concert opened with the Candide overture and ended with the Dvorak New World Symphony, with two other pieces played in between and a ten-minute intermission. Then depending on the audience's enthusiasm, we usually played a few of our encores. The program
The encores
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